Have you ever thought what a passenger feels when there is an emergency on board? Most passengers are afraid of flying in some level. Either they don’t like the idea of being stuck with all those people inside a ‘tin can’ or they simply doubt that such a heavy thing can hold itself up in the air. And most passengers are laymen, so they don’t know anything about aircraft systems, engines, air traffic control, other than what they have seen on TV and in movies.

Watch this short but interesting video from The New York Times, which shows how a passenger perceived the landing of flight 1549 in the Hudson River, in New York City last year.